Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
ISLAMABAD: Forests being cut in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir territory by the timber mafia will bring the looming water crisis in the region nearer, warned an official of the territory. “Every year the criminal activity adds 5,000 acres of barren land to the 500,000 acres already denuded of trees,” …
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan, has assured all provincial forest departments of all-out support in every possible form for increasing area under forest in the country. "Although the forest has become a provincial subject after the 18th constitutional amendment, unprecedented significance, the importance of forest resources …
A toolkit developed by leading plantation companies and NGOs including Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and Unilever has been launched to help companies end deforestation in their supply chains. The High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach Steering Group developed the toolkit, backed by Greenpeace and WWF, to enable the widespread implementation …
The West Papuan provincial administration is preparing a regional bylaw to designate West Papua a conservation province, an official said Monday. “The bylaw is being worked out before being submitted to the West Papua Legislative Council for deliberation,” West Papua administration secretary Nataniel Mandacan said as quoted by Antara news …
Hundreds of projects like hospitals await forest clearance While hundreds of projects await forest clearance, the government has revised guidelines for private projects such as hospitals and health institutions for diversion of reserved forests (RFs), demarcated protected forests (DPFs) and undemocratic protected forests (UPFs) for non-forest use. Government projects, including …
Norms for project: Forest Department officials say clearance under the Forest Conservation Act and approval of the National Board for Wildlife must be obtained before the Mekedatu dam project is set in motion. The State government may be resolute in its decision to build a dam across the River Cauvery …
As part of its effort to improve the ease of doing business and ensure predictable and expeditious forest clearances, the environment ministry will discuss changes to the Forest Rights Act with state environment and forest ministers in early April. While the environment ministry wants to simplify the process, the tribal …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babu Lal Jajoo Vs Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan & Others dated 04/03/2015 regarding utilisation of CAMPA funds in in the State of Rajasthan for its rightful purpose of afforestation, development and conservation of forests and …
SHILLONG: The nine cement companies in East Jaintia Hills, which have violated the Forest Conservation Act, will be allowed to acquire land as per the proposed Land Acquisition Act for afforestation, said Forest and Environment minister Prestone Tynsong. These nine cement companies have violated Forest and Conversation Act, 1980, and …
In an attempt to bring people closer to forests in Uttarakhand, the Harish Rawat government in last one year did try to involve them in environment conservation with its Chief Minister’s flagship Hamara Ped Hamara Dhan Yojana. The scheme is meant to encourage plantation of saplings in private lands. Forest …
Castigating the Forest Department for delay in identifying and demarcating private forests, the National Green Tribunal, Pune, has declared 12.61 ha of land at Xelpem, Mapusa, as private forest. The Forest Department has been directed to take all necessary steps immediately to preserve and protect this forest land as per …
If you’ve ever pondered what trees think about life’s major issues, the city of Melbourne has come up with an elegant solution – you can email them and find out. The city council has devised an interactive urban forest map that provides individual data on each of the 70,000 trees …
The Tibetan authorities handed out 2.9 billion yuan (466 million U.S. dollars) last year as rewards for environmental protection, the regional assembly was told on Wednesday. The funds went to those who stopped or reduced herding in areas prone to deforestation and on subsidies for grass seed and farming equipment, …
COMMUNITIES from two villages of Mbulu District in Manyara Region have started leaping the benefits of their responsible forest conservation behaviour with a 38m/- pay check during the first six months of 2014. Carbon Tanzania said in a recent report posted on its website that the two villages, Domanga and …
The Reference Document is divided into 9 chapters starting with an introduction and overview of the subject, moving on gradually and logically to required policy framework to support REDD+ implementation as part of the forest management in the country. The document describes in detail the issues and concepts related to …
In the wake of the signing of a forest conservation agreement between the Government of Liberia and the European Union through the Government of Norway, where the country stands to benefit US$150 million in exchange for protecting its forest, the Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority says the agreement …
Land-use change, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, is a massive source of carbon emissions and contributes substantially to global warming. Therefore, mechanisms that aim to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation are widely discussed. A central challenge is the avoidance of international carbon leakage if forest conservation …
A high level committee, which has been reviewing green laws to suggest appropriate amendments to bring them in sync with the government's development goals, has got another month to finalize its report. The move comes even as the Centre is keen to change couple of key legislations during the winter …
